I remember Don Walser, “the unique,
yodeling Texas country-music legend,”
playing guitar and singing at Jovita’s.
He died of diabetes.
The restaurant is now boarded up,
confiscated by U.S. Marshals
after a heroin bust.
The exterior walls are now a place
for lyrical strokes of spray paint and
collages of wheat-paste copy art cutouts.
Something new is about to happen.
What will it be?
We the living cannot but wonder.
If the past is prologue, the future will be
beyond our control and prediction.
No wonder we pray!